Machine for condensing and doubling cotton



(No Model.)

A. 0. GOD DIN. Machine for Condensing and Doublingfiotton.

Patented Jan. 4,188].

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N:PETE.RS, PKOTO-LITNOGRAFMER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

NITED STATES AROHIBALD O. GODD IN,

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OF GAINES LANDING, ARKANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO JOHN L. HEBRON, OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, AND WILLIAM A. POLLOOK, OF GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI.

M ACHINE FOR CONDENSING AND DOUBLING COTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,397, dated January 4, 1881. Application filed March 29,1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ARCHIBALD O. GODDIN, residing at Gaines Landing, in the county of Ohicot, State of Arkansas, have invented Improvements in Machines for Condensing and Doubling Cotton, of which the following is a speclfication.

My invention relates to a machine for taking the cotton directly from the gin and forming it into doubled laps suitable for the feedboard of a carding-machine; and my invention consists in the appliances described and claimed for this purpose.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side view of the machine, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a top view of part of the driving-shaft, showing tight and loose pulleys on the same.

A is the case, with a feed-mouth, B, in direct communication with the dischargespout of a cotton-gin.

O is an orifice where the lap of condensed cotton leaves the case.

D l) and E E are four wire-gauze cylinders, acting in pairs as rollers to condense the cotton and to form it into a lap. Between the two pairs of rollers the cotton issubjected to the rotating pickers F F, each consisting of a central shaft, F, and projecting teeth F The 0 pickers rotate in an opposite direction to the condensing rollers, as shown; but I do not confine myself as to the direction of rotation of either picker or as to speed of same. They may rotate in opposite direction to each other, 5 as shown, so as to tear the cotton lap asunder upward and downward as it leaves the pair D D of condensing-rollers, and this, with my present knowledge, I suppose would be the preferred manner ofoperation. The proposed direction of rotation of the rollers and pickers is shown. by arrows in the sectional view, Fig. 2.

It will be seen that the cotton, which enters the mouth B in a loose condition, as it leaves the gin, is condensed and pressed into a mat by the rollers D D and projected upon the teeth of the pickers F F. These pickers tear the mat asunder and throw the flakes of cotton upward and downward and to the second pair of condensing-rollers, E E, by which it is 0 again formed into a mat or lap and projected upon the endless apron G, carried upon actuating-rollers H and I. The lap is carried by the endless apron to the grooved rollers J J, and it passes between them, being still further condensed in its passage. From the rollers J J the lap passes to a roller, K, which may be smooth, or may have ribs or projections upon it, and whose offioe is to coil the lap upon the removable lap-roller L. The roller L turns between bearing-pins or standards M M, so that it is free to rise as the lap is coiled upon it and the diameter of the cotton-roll increases. When the proper amount of the lap has been coiled upon the roller L it is removed and another roller substituted. Thus the whole operation of forming a single coiled lap is completed.

To double two or more laps together, one or more of the coiled laps upon the rollers L are placed upon the endless apron in the position shown by the rollers L, with the ends of the rollers bearing against standards M. The cot ton-lap is unwound from the rollers L by the movementot'the apron beneath. Thus two or more thicknesses of the lap may be coiled upon the last roller L.

The actuating mechanism may be of any suitable character to give the described movements. That shown is as follows: Upon the shaft of the lower roller, D, are tight and loose pulleys at O and a spur-wheel, P. This spurwheel P engages with spur-wheel Q upon the shaft of the upper roller, D, and spur-wheel R upon the shaft of the lower picker, F. The spur-wheel Q engages the spur-wheel S ofthe upper picker, and the picker-wheels 1t and S engage, respectively, the spur-wheels T and U upon the shafts of the lower and upper condensing rollers, E E. The shaft H is driven by a spur-pinion, V, upon it, which engages the spur-wheel U. The shafts H I are connected by a belt, W, upon belt-pulleys H I, so that the wheel I is driven by the belt as well as bytheendless apron. The spur-pinion 5 1 upon shaft I engages with a spur-wheel, J, upon the upper grooved roll, J, and the spurwheel J engages with a spur-wheel, J of the same diameter upon the other roller J. The spur-Wheel J may engage a spur-wheel upon the shaft of roller K; but I prefer to drive the roller K by a belt, K passing over pulleys J and K upon the shafts of rollers J and K, respectively, as shown.

Havingdescrihed l1] yinvention, whatI claim as new is- The machine for condensing and doubling cotton, having the chamber A, provided with inlet B at one end and. outlet 0 at the other end, andv containing two pairs of condensingrollers, D D and E E, and between said rollers two pickers, F, having radial fingers F together with apron G and rollers J J, K, and L, journaled as shown, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

AROHIBALD (J. GODDIN.

Witnesses:

ALSTON BOYD, A. B. DUNCAN. 

